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This article offers insights into conceptual, pedagogical, and programmatic crossings and conflicts between the fields of Environmental Studies and Ethnic Studies. It highlights both the important intersections between the two fields and their potential value, while also addressing the challenges posed in the development of programmatic collaborations. Utilizing case studies drawn from the author's own experiences, the article's focus is on harnessing the strengths and limitations of both fields to promote transformative knowledge and action at multiple scales.

Despite the physical proximity of the birthplace of Subaltern Studies, South Asia, to the Middle East and despite the convergent, colliding histories of these two regions, scholars of the Middle East attend very little to the Subaltern Studies project or to the work of Subaltern Studies groups. Although certain stances of Fanon and Said, with their focus on cultural strategies of domination and resistance, have a currency in Middle Eastern studies, no literary theorist, folklorist, anthropologist, political scientist or historian in the field of Middle Eastern Studies, so far as I am aware, explicitly draws upon Subaltern Studies with any consistency as an organizing principle for his or her studies. It is the Latin Americanists (and to a lesser degree Africanists) who have been most eager to build on South Asian Subaltern Studies to respond to Latin American (or subsanaran African) circumstances. Perhaps it is time to take a closer look at what Subaltern Studies might contribute to Middle Eastern studies if we were to make a sustained effort to apply and critique that body of literature.

Biographical note: Stephan Moebius ist Professor für Soziologische Theorie und Ideengeschichte an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz und Vorsitzender der Sektion Kultursoziologie in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Bei transcript erschien bisher u.a. »Kultur« (Einsichten. Themen der Soziologie, 2. überarb. Aufl. 2008) und »Das Design der Gesellschaft. Zur Kultursoziologie des Designs« (2012, hg. zus. m. Sophia Prinz).

This collection presents papers on various issues of social development in Africa. The contributors are historians, philosophers, economists, legal experts, sociologists, literary specialists, linguists, educationalists and scholars of culture. (DÜI-Hff)

AUTHOR EXAMINES THE USES OF REGIONAL STUDIES WHICH WOULD BE VALUABLE IN LOOKING FOR SUCCESSFUL MODELS OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH, IN EXAMINING REGIONAL DIFFERENCES, AND IN ATTEMPTING COMPLICATED RESEARCH.